CIVICUS

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation "is an international alliance with members in about 110 countries that has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened. CIVICUS has a vision of a global community of active, engaged citizens committed to the creation of a more just and equitable world. This is premised on the belief that the health of societies exists in direct proportion to the degree of balance between the state, the private sector and civil society. CIVICUS provides a focal point for knowledge-sharing, common interest representation, global institution-building and engagement among these disparate sectors. It acts as an advocate for citizen participation as an essential component of governance and democracy worldwide. CIVICUS seeks to amplify the voices and opinions of ordinary people and it gives expression to the enormous creative energy of the burgeoning sector of civil society."

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CIVICUS has established its global headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa."


 * Kumi Naidoo - Honorary President   *Ingid Srinath - Secretary General

Funders
"We would like to thank the following donors for their generous support in helping CIVICUS achieve its mission during 2005:" (2005 Annual Report)
 * ActionAid International
 * ActionAid Southern Africa
 * Aga Khan Foundation Canada
 * Amnesty International South Africa
 * Atlantic Philanthropies
 * Australian Volunteers International (AVI)
 * Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
 * Christian Aid
 * Comic Relief
 * CordAid
 * Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
 * Commonwealth of Learning
 * DCD Group
 * Development Co-operation Ireland (DCI)
 * Department for International Development, UK (DFID)
 * Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
 * Harvard University (Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organisations)
 * International Development Research Centre / Centre de Recherches pour le Développement International (IDRC/CRDI)
 * Inter-American Foundation
 * Band Aid Trust
 * Nelson Mandela Foundation
 * NORAD
 * Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
 * Oxfam America
 * Oxfam GB
 * Oxfam Netherlands (NOVIB)
 * Sasakawa Peace Foundation
 * Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)
 * Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
 * Synergos Institute
 * Carnegie Foundation
 * United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Millennium Campaign
 * Vicente Garcia-Delgado

Membership (Foundations)
 * American Express
 * Chevron Texaco
 * Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
 * JW McConnell Family

In 2000 they received $165,000 from the Ford Foundation to "circulate information about cross-sector partnerships that engage business in community and economic development."

Directors
Accessed July 2009:


 * Anabel Cruz
 * Maja Daruwala
 * Rajiv Joshi
 * Cecilia Dockendorff
 * David Robinson
 * Ziad Abdul Samad
 * Marta Cumbi
 * Debbie Kaddu-Serwadda
 * David Bonbright
 * Peter Shiras
 * Rieky Stuart
 * Martin Sime

Former Board Members

 * Stuart Etherington
 * Sadiqa Salahuddin
 * Lesley Bulman-Lever
 * Jan Jakub Wygnanski
 * Dongyu Gan
 * Sara Hlupekile Longwe
 * Alan Fowler
 * Aruna Rao
 * Monica Patten

Contact

 * Web: http://www.civicus.org

Resources and articles

 * Barry Smith